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Research Notes on Childhood and Migration

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Viviana A. Zelizer
Princeton University
Children, "Good Matches," and Policies for Care
Professor Zelizer explores caregiving relationships as another form of economic consideration. She argues that unpaid care work is discriminatory and increases economic insecurity. Resistance to compensation underpins unjust policies, while Zelizer's "Good Matches" combine caring work with economic transactions.
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Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
University of California, Davis
Understanding the Backlash: Transnational Migrant Families in the Philippines
Professor Parreñas explores why transnational migrant families are negatively perceived in a society that economically depends on their constitution. She shows that growing up in transnational households is not just made difficult by the physical distance that hampers intergenerational relations but also by the lack of public support for such families.
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Kristen E. Cheney
University of Dayton
Identity, Migration, and Development: 'Village Life is Better than Town Life’
In her research, Professor Cheney considers how urban Ugandan children have come to imagine their identities against the African rural-urban migration history and contemporary development trajectories. By situating her own ethnographic research historically through the work of the Manchester School of social research and its intellectual descendants, Cheyney aims to contextualize current debates about urban-rural migration to show how it figures in life strategies for urban families and individual children.
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